The ROM faction is going to be awesome! NEW content ... More PRIME Trek, more explorin and fun
Why the hell do you guys seem to chucking the idea in the bin?!? Just beacuse of the allainces means you have to be like this?
By having an alliance, no forming a new fleet and spending $$$ (why cant you use a pound sign
) on dilithium and no need to start agian.
If the faction was independant , a crippled force against 2 major powers .... please?! They would be gone in nearly no time.
So STOP WHINING!!
Hopefully I'll come back from my break; this break is fun; I play intellectual games.
I hope STO get's better ...
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system Lord Baal is dead
In other words?
I hope STO get's better ...
I was looking forward to a refreshing change in the game's dynamic that a third faction would bring, rather than the continuation of that same status quo that we've had for 3 years with a new coat of paint.
2) I'd rather have no fleet than be stuck building up federation starbases for the benefit of the Federation. Ditto for the KDF.
3) It would be infinately better to have Romulans, in Romulan fleets, building starbases for the benefit of the Romulans, IMO.
4) We had the RSE, which was doing fine until Cryptic decided to overthrow it and install D'Tan and his hippies as the one and only ligitimate Romulan faction. How is Romulans sending their technology, ships, and manpower to their bitter rivals for the purpose of being killed and destroyed in a war in which they are not involved, up to and including killing other members of the Romulan Republci suppsoed to make them *less* crippled? If logic is anything they are opening the door to their own destruction.
5) How about you stop whining about people making legitamate complaints of their most beloved faction being turned into a glorified KDF/Fed content expansion, instead of an actual, honest-to-goodness faction?
Define whinning. I only made one post, sure you have more. Your whinning about someone who does not understand and is trying to get people to not be angry.
I hope STO get's better ...
Why? I dont get it
I hope STO get's better ...
look on the brightside, it does seem like they are de-emphasizing the unification with vulcans angle :P
i think we all agree that it would be best if the romulans were 100% unique but they have said many times over the years that adding new factions is difficult and there may have to be compromises.
all that is happening is that you play as a romulan doing romulan things but in terms of endgame, and fleets you align yourself with someone else (you can still keep your fleet full of only romulan players, you can still make private queues of romulan players). but this is to help the queues not get diluted and makes sense in terms of the story being told.
the romulans in this game are a broken faction, and its going to take time for them to get back on their feet. you are no longer playing the the shadowy, evil romulans from the shows. you are playing the refugees and break away rebels trying to find a new home. you are not looking to conquer the galaxy, but to rebuild and find allies.
nothing in an MMO is permanent and hopefully in the future they can get their own starbases and things can be restructured a little to make them more independent, but at the moment this option is more practical both for gameplay and for the story.
ohhh, now I'm an going an even more sad panda in may, I haddn't thought about it like that. The new Romulus thing will make even less sense
Worf disagrees.
Unless the Romulan Player you want to do these things with picked the other faction at level 10.
At the end of the day ever being restricted from playing with someone of the same "faction" because of a decision made at level 10 is a bad design choice.
If they want anyone to ever consider this a faction they need to take away the decision that locks you to one course forever, and locks you from some gameplay aspects with other members of your "faction". If they don't want 3 way PvP, make us choose between the Fed and KDF queues, but we should be able to join a fleet with any other Romulan we want at any time we want.
This. Sounds like a solution.
The JJ verse is now the Prime universe, the rest was all a dream of a posibility.
People should just be Happy STO is supporting the now nonexistant TNG universe.
TOS all the way and JJ knows that.
Just try the new stuff out.
Don't play it if you don't like it.
IF they are going to make it a full faction at some point in the future it would actually make sense to ally themself with both sides right now. They are to weak to defend themself and actually do need resources to rebuild. So they play nice for a while and let ppl like D'Tan rule until the RSE is strong enough to rebirth itself out of whatever is left.
At least to me it would be very romulan to play nice and democracy as long as it serves them to get fed/kdf help in rebuilding and the reverting back to their old habbits on being the sneaky TRIBBLE they always were.
If they ever do that, they will tear apart fleets with it. And people would have to start building a new base after they could have done so much earlier. I fear that Romulans will never get their own bases....
Let us decide if we want to do it or not. It's just such a shame to try to build a new faction and not do it right.
Absolutely. The current IP holder, who's name shall not be mentioned, allowed the total ruination of the Romulans and the ST IP. Now Cryptic and any other creative agents going forward, have to work through the mess they made.
Nice try thou.
People were saying LONG before the release not to give your hopes up, did people really not expect some kind of major drawback with a new faction? This is Cryptic, how did people NOT see this coming?
These people are just mad because they built ridiculously high hopes out of the announcement of the Rom faction, after dozens and dozens of threads of people saying "Don't get your hopes up, this is Cryptic, there's will be some sort of catch" those people got flamed and accused of being over cynical. Now those people were proven right and the people who had high hopes are full of rage.
Cryptic can't disappoint me anymore - In fact, I still think the Rom faction is pretty neat for Cryptic standards. They've always been known to say they're putting something out that's just half done and say "See, we told you we'd get it done!" and then my reaction was always "Well, I guess, TECHNICALLY you're right".
People are disappointed because they let Cryptic disappoint them, I really don't know why they expected this expansion not to have some big faults.